* [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings
@ 2014-03-05 8:59 Mark Brown
2014-03-05 8:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: topology: Tell the scheduler about the relative power of cores Mark Brown
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From: Mark Brown @ 2014-03-05 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
From: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Add support for parsing the explicit topology bindings to discover the
topology of the system.
Since it is not currently clear how to map multi-level clusters for the
scheduler all leaf clusters are presented to the scheduler at the same
level. This should be enough to provide good support for current systems.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
---
This revision of the patch changes the parsing code to error out on any
failures it detects and discard any information already obtained,
reverting to the default flat topology.
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 167 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index 3e06b0b..8e0f29a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -17,10 +17,161 @@
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/node.h>
#include <linux/nodemask.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <asm/topology.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_OF
+static int __init get_cpu_for_node(struct device_node *node)
+{
+ struct device_node *cpu_node;
+ int cpu;
+
+ cpu_node = of_parse_phandle(node, "cpu", 0);
+ if (!cpu_node)
+ return -1;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ if (of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL) == cpu_node)
+ return cpu;
+ }
+
+ pr_crit("Unable to find CPU node for %s\n", cpu_node->full_name);
+ return -1;
+}
+
+static int __init parse_core(struct device_node *core, int cluster_id,
+ int core_id)
+{
+ char name[10];
+ bool leaf = true;
+ int i = 0;
+ int cpu;
+ struct device_node *t;
+
+ do {
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "thread%d", i);
+ t = of_get_child_by_name(core, name);
+ if (t) {
+ leaf = false;
+ cpu = get_cpu_for_node(t);
+ if (cpu >= 0) {
+ cpu_topology[cpu].cluster_id = cluster_id;
+ cpu_topology[cpu].core_id = core_id;
+ cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id = i;
+ } else {
+ pr_err("%s: Can't get CPU for thread\n",
+ t->full_name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+ i++;
+ } while (t);
+
+ cpu = get_cpu_for_node(core);
+ if (cpu >= 0) {
+ if (!leaf) {
+ pr_err("%s: Core has both threads and CPU\n",
+ core->full_name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ cpu_topology[cpu].cluster_id = cluster_id;
+ cpu_topology[cpu].core_id = core_id;
+ } else if (leaf) {
+ pr_err("%s: Can't get CPU for leaf core\n", core->full_name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int __init parse_cluster(struct device_node *cluster, int depth)
+{
+ char name[10];
+ bool leaf = true;
+ bool has_cores = false;
+ struct device_node *c;
+ static int __initdata cluster_id;
+ int core_id = 0;
+ int i, ret;
+
+ /*
+ * First check for child clusters; we currently ignore any
+ * information about the nesting of clusters and present the
+ * scheduler with a flat list of them.
+ */
+ i = 0;
+ do {
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "cluster%d", i);
+ c = of_get_child_by_name(cluster, name);
+ if (c) {
+ parse_cluster(c, depth + 1);
+ leaf = false;
+ }
+ i++;
+ } while (c);
+
+ /* Now check for cores */
+ i = 0;
+ do {
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "core%d", i);
+ c = of_get_child_by_name(cluster, name);
+ if (c) {
+ has_cores = true;
+
+ if (depth == 0)
+ pr_err("%s: cpu-map children should be clusters\n",
+ c->full_name);
+
+ if (leaf) {
+ ret = parse_core(c, cluster_id, core_id++);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ return ret;
+ }
+ } else {
+ pr_err("%s: Non-leaf cluster with core %s\n",
+ cluster->full_name, name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+ i++;
+ } while (c);
+
+ if (leaf && !has_cores)
+ pr_warn("%s: empty cluster\n", cluster->full_name);
+
+ if (leaf)
+ cluster_id++;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int __init parse_dt_topology(void)
+{
+ struct device_node *cn;
+
+ cn = of_find_node_by_path("/cpus");
+ if (!cn) {
+ pr_err("No CPU information found in DT\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * When topology is provided cpu-map is essentially a root
+ * cluster with restricted subnodes.
+ */
+ cn = of_get_child_by_name(cn, "cpu-map");
+ if (!cn)
+ return 0;
+ return parse_cluster(cn, 0);
+}
+
+#else
+static inline int parse_dt_topology(void) { return 0; }
+#endif
+
/*
* cpu topology table
*/
@@ -74,11 +225,7 @@ void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
update_siblings_masks(cpuid);
}
-/*
- * init_cpu_topology is called at boot when only one cpu is running
- * which prevent simultaneous write access to cpu_topology array
- */
-void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
+static void __init reset_cpu_topology(void)
{
unsigned int cpu;
@@ -93,3 +240,18 @@ void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
cpumask_clear(&cpu_topo->thread_sibling);
}
}
+
+/*
+ * init_cpu_topology is called at boot when only one cpu is running
+ * which prevent simultaneous write access to cpu_topology array
+ */
+void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ reset_cpu_topology();
+
+ ret = parse_dt_topology();
+ if (ret != 0)
+ reset_cpu_topology();
+}
--
1.9.0
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* [PATCH 2/3] arm64: topology: Tell the scheduler about the relative power of cores
2014-03-05 8:59 [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings Mark Brown
@ 2014-03-05 8:59 ` Mark Brown
2014-03-05 8:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: topology: Provide relative power numbers for cores Mark Brown
2014-03-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings Lorenzo Pieralisi
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2014-03-05 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
From: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
In heterogeneous systems like big.LITTLE systems the scheduler will be
able to make better use of the available cores if we provide power numbers
to it indicating their relative performance. Do this by parsing the CPU
nodes in the DT.
This code currently has no effect as no information on the relative
performance of the cores is provided.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 145 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index 8e0f29a..3a80979 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -19,9 +19,33 @@
#include <linux/nodemask.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/topology.h>
+/*
+ * cpu power table
+ * This per cpu data structure describes the relative capacity of each core.
+ * On a heteregenous system, cores don't have the same computation capacity
+ * and we reflect that difference in the cpu_power field so the scheduler can
+ * take this difference into account during load balance. A per cpu structure
+ * is preferred because each CPU updates its own cpu_power field during the
+ * load balance except for idle cores. One idle core is selected to run the
+ * rebalance_domains for all idle cores and the cpu_power can be updated
+ * during this sequence.
+ */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cpu_scale);
+
+unsigned long arch_scale_freq_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
+{
+ return per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu);
+}
+
+static void set_power_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long power)
+{
+ per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu) = power;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_OF
static int __init get_cpu_for_node(struct device_node *node)
{
@@ -148,9 +172,49 @@ static int __init parse_cluster(struct device_node *cluster, int depth)
return 0;
}
+struct cpu_efficiency {
+ const char *compatible;
+ unsigned long efficiency;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Table of relative efficiency of each processors
+ * The efficiency value must fit in 20bit and the final
+ * cpu_scale value must be in the range
+ * 0 < cpu_scale < 3*SCHED_POWER_SCALE/2
+ * in order to return@most 1 when DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST
+ * is used to compute the capacity of a CPU.
+ * Processors that are not defined in the table,
+ * use the default SCHED_POWER_SCALE value for cpu_scale.
+ */
+static const struct cpu_efficiency table_efficiency[] = {
+ { NULL, },
+};
+
+static unsigned long *__cpu_capacity;
+#define cpu_capacity(cpu) __cpu_capacity[cpu]
+
+static unsigned long middle_capacity = 1;
+
+/*
+ * Iterate all CPUs' descriptor in DT and compute the efficiency
+ * (as per table_efficiency). Also calculate a middle efficiency
+ * as close as possible to (max{eff_i} - min{eff_i}) / 2
+ * This is later used to scale the cpu_power field such that an
+ * 'average' CPU is of middle power. Also see the comments near
+ * table_efficiency[] and update_cpu_power().
+ */
static int __init parse_dt_topology(void)
{
+ const struct cpu_efficiency *cpu_eff;
struct device_node *cn;
+ unsigned long min_capacity = ULONG_MAX;
+ unsigned long max_capacity = 0;
+ unsigned long capacity = 0;
+ int cpu, ret;
+
+ __cpu_capacity = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*__cpu_capacity),
+ GFP_NOWAIT);
cn = of_find_node_by_path("/cpus");
if (!cn) {
@@ -165,11 +229,88 @@ static int __init parse_dt_topology(void)
cn = of_get_child_by_name(cn, "cpu-map");
if (!cn)
return 0;
- return parse_cluster(cn, 0);
+
+ ret = parse_cluster(cn, 0);
+ if (ret != 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ const u32 *rate;
+ int len;
+
+ /* Too early to use cpu->of_node */
+ cn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
+ if (!cn) {
+ pr_err("Missing device node for CPU %d\n", cpu);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ for (cpu_eff = table_efficiency; cpu_eff->compatible; cpu_eff++)
+ if (of_device_is_compatible(cn, cpu_eff->compatible))
+ break;
+
+ if (cpu_eff->compatible == NULL) {
+ pr_warn("%s: Unknown CPU type\n", cn->full_name);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ rate = of_get_property(cn, "clock-frequency", &len);
+ if (!rate || len != 4) {
+ pr_err("%s: Missing clock-frequency property\n",
+ cn->full_name);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ capacity = ((be32_to_cpup(rate)) >> 20) * cpu_eff->efficiency;
+
+ /* Save min capacity of the system */
+ if (capacity < min_capacity)
+ min_capacity = capacity;
+
+ /* Save max capacity of the system */
+ if (capacity > max_capacity)
+ max_capacity = capacity;
+
+ cpu_capacity(cpu) = capacity;
+ }
+
+ /* If min and max capacities are equal we bypass the update of the
+ * cpu_scale because all CPUs have the same capacity. Otherwise, we
+ * compute a middle_capacity factor that will ensure that the capacity
+ * of an 'average' CPU of the system will be as close as possible to
+ * SCHED_POWER_SCALE, which is the default value, but with the
+ * constraint explained near table_efficiency[].
+ */
+ if (min_capacity == max_capacity)
+ return 0;
+ else if (4 * max_capacity < (3 * (max_capacity + min_capacity)))
+ middle_capacity = (min_capacity + max_capacity)
+ >> (SCHED_POWER_SHIFT+1);
+ else
+ middle_capacity = ((max_capacity / 3)
+ >> (SCHED_POWER_SHIFT-1)) + 1;
+
+}
+
+/*
+ * Look for a customed capacity of a CPU in the cpu_topo_data table during the
+ * boot. The update of all CPUs is in O(n^2) for heteregeneous system but the
+ * function returns directly for SMP system.
+ */
+static void update_cpu_power(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+ if (!cpu_capacity(cpu))
+ return;
+
+ set_power_scale(cpu, cpu_capacity(cpu) / middle_capacity);
+
+ pr_info("CPU%u: update cpu_power %lu\n",
+ cpu, arch_scale_freq_power(NULL, cpu));
}
#else
static inline int parse_dt_topology(void) { return 0; }
+static inline void update_cpu_power(unsigned int cpuid) {}
#endif
/*
@@ -223,6 +364,7 @@ static void update_siblings_masks(unsigned int cpuid)
void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
{
update_siblings_masks(cpuid);
+ update_cpu_power(cpuid);
}
static void __init reset_cpu_topology(void)
@@ -238,6 +380,8 @@ static void __init reset_cpu_topology(void)
cpu_topo->cluster_id = -1;
cpumask_clear(&cpu_topo->core_sibling);
cpumask_clear(&cpu_topo->thread_sibling);
+
+ set_power_scale(cpu, SCHED_POWER_SCALE);
}
}
--
1.9.0
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* [PATCH 3/3] arm64: topology: Provide relative power numbers for cores
2014-03-05 8:59 [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings Mark Brown
2014-03-05 8:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: topology: Tell the scheduler about the relative power of cores Mark Brown
@ 2014-03-05 8:59 ` Mark Brown
2014-03-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings Lorenzo Pieralisi
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2014-03-05 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
From: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Provide performance numbers to the scheduler to help it fill the cores in
the system on big.LITTLE systems. With the current scheduler this may
perform poorly for applications that try to do OpenMP style work over all
cores but should help for more common workloads. The current 32 bit ARM
implementation provides a similar estimate so this helps ensure that
work to improve big.LITTLE systems on ARMv7 systems performs similarly
on ARMv8 systems.
The power numbers are the same as for ARMv7 since it seems that the
expected differential between the big and little cores is very similar on
both ARMv7 and ARMv8. In both ARMv7 and ARMv8 cases the numbers were
based on the published DMIPS numbers.
These numbers are just an initial and basic approximation for use with
the current scheduler, it is likely that both experience with silicon
and ongoing work on improving the scheduler will lead to further tuning
or will tune automatically at runtime and so make the specific choice of
numbers here less critical.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index 3a80979..69a5bf1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ struct cpu_efficiency {
* use the default SCHED_POWER_SCALE value for cpu_scale.
*/
static const struct cpu_efficiency table_efficiency[] = {
+ { "arm,cortex-a57", 3891 },
+ { "arm,cortex-a53", 2048 },
{ NULL, },
};
--
1.9.0
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* [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings
2014-03-05 8:59 [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings Mark Brown
2014-03-05 8:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: topology: Tell the scheduler about the relative power of cores Mark Brown
2014-03-05 8:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: topology: Provide relative power numbers for cores Mark Brown
@ 2014-03-19 16:04 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-03-19 16:33 ` Mark Brown
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Pieralisi @ 2014-03-19 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
Hi Mark,
sorry for the delay in reviewing.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:59:33AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
[...]
> +static int __init parse_cluster(struct device_node *cluster, int depth)
> +{
> + char name[10];
> + bool leaf = true;
> + bool has_cores = false;
> + struct device_node *c;
> + static int __initdata cluster_id;
> + int core_id = 0;
> + int i, ret;
> +
> + /*
> + * First check for child clusters; we currently ignore any
> + * information about the nesting of clusters and present the
> + * scheduler with a flat list of them.
> + */
> + i = 0;
> + do {
> + snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "cluster%d", i);
> + c = of_get_child_by_name(cluster, name);
> + if (c) {
> + parse_cluster(c, depth + 1);
You should check (and propagate) the return value here, otherwise we miss
detection of bodged topology bindings and fail to reset the topology data.
> + leaf = false;
> + }
> + i++;
> + } while (c);
> +
> + /* Now check for cores */
> + i = 0;
> + do {
> + snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "core%d", i);
> + c = of_get_child_by_name(cluster, name);
> + if (c) {
> + has_cores = true;
> +
> + if (depth == 0)
> + pr_err("%s: cpu-map children should be clusters\n",
> + c->full_name);
> +
> + if (leaf) {
> + ret = parse_core(c, cluster_id, core_id++);
> + if (ret != 0) {
Should remove braces.
> + return ret;
> + }
> + } else {
> + pr_err("%s: Non-leaf cluster with core %s\n",
> + cluster->full_name, name);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + }
> + i++;
> + } while (c);
> +
> + if (leaf && !has_cores)
> + pr_warn("%s: empty cluster\n", cluster->full_name);
> +
> + if (leaf)
> + cluster_id++;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int __init parse_dt_topology(void)
> +{
> + struct device_node *cn;
> +
> + cn = of_find_node_by_path("/cpus");
> + if (!cn) {
> + pr_err("No CPU information found in DT\n");
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * When topology is provided cpu-map is essentially a root
> + * cluster with restricted subnodes.
> + */
> + cn = of_get_child_by_name(cn, "cpu-map");
> + if (!cn)
> + return 0;
> + return parse_cluster(cn, 0);
> +}
> +
> +#else
> +static inline int parse_dt_topology(void) { return 0; }
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * cpu topology table
> */
> @@ -74,11 +225,7 @@ void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
> update_siblings_masks(cpuid);
> }
>
> -/*
> - * init_cpu_topology is called at boot when only one cpu is running
> - * which prevent simultaneous write access to cpu_topology array
> - */
> -void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
> +static void __init reset_cpu_topology(void)
> {
> unsigned int cpu;
>
> @@ -93,3 +240,18 @@ void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
> cpumask_clear(&cpu_topo->thread_sibling);
> }
> }
> +
> +/*
> + * init_cpu_topology is called at boot when only one cpu is running
> + * which prevent simultaneous write access to cpu_topology array
> + */
Comment is stale.
> +void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + reset_cpu_topology();
> +
> + ret = parse_dt_topology();
> + if (ret != 0)
> + reset_cpu_topology();
ret is unused so should be removed. You could remove the first reset call and
use static initialization for that, it is a matter of taste though.
A comment is in order, whatever approach you go for.
Thanks,
Lorenzo
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* [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings
2014-03-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings Lorenzo Pieralisi
@ 2014-03-19 16:33 ` Mark Brown
2014-03-19 16:50 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2014-03-19 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:04:14PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:59:33AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > + if (leaf) {
> > + ret = parse_core(c, cluster_id, core_id++);
> > + if (ret != 0) {
> Should remove braces.
> > + return ret;
> > + }
> > + } else {
They're there because it's nested inside another if statement with
braces - yes, there is indentation but it still helps.
> > +void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + reset_cpu_topology();
> > +
> > + ret = parse_dt_topology();
> > + if (ret != 0)
> > + reset_cpu_topology();
> ret is unused so should be removed. You could remove the first reset call and
I'm sorry, I don't follow? The use is quoted above...
> use static initialization for that, it is a matter of taste though.
Static initialisation can't cover the calls to set_power_scale() and
having a different thing for default and unwinding cases seems likely to
be error prone.
> A comment is in order, whatever approach you go for.
I'm not sure what the confusion is here so I don't know what a comment
would clarify. Could you say what it is you find confusing please?
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* [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings
2014-03-19 16:33 ` Mark Brown
@ 2014-03-19 16:50 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-03-19 17:03 ` Mark Brown
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Pieralisi @ 2014-03-19 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:33:39PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:04:14PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > +void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
> > > +{
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + reset_cpu_topology();
> > > +
> > > + ret = parse_dt_topology();
> > > + if (ret != 0)
> > > + reset_cpu_topology();
>
> > ret is unused so should be removed. You could remove the first reset call and
>
> I'm sorry, I don't follow? The use is quoted above...
if (parse_dt_topology())
reset_cpu_topology();
If you want to leave ret there I do not care, I flag what I notice.
> > use static initialization for that, it is a matter of taste though.
>
> Static initialisation can't cover the calls to set_power_scale() and
> having a different thing for default and unwinding cases seems likely to
> be error prone.
>
> > A comment is in order, whatever approach you go for.
>
> I'm not sure what the confusion is here so I don't know what a comment
> would clarify. Could you say what it is you find confusing please?
It is worth explaining why you want to reset the topology for the sake
of completeness, I do not think I am asking too much.
parse_cluster() return value issue I flagged up must be fixed though.
Thanks,
Lorenzo
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* [PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings
2014-03-19 16:50 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
@ 2014-03-19 17:03 ` Mark Brown
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2014-03-19 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:50:58PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> if (parse_dt_topology())
> reset_cpu_topology();
> If you want to leave ret there I do not care, I flag what I notice.
Oh, right. I was confused because you said it was unused when it
clearly had a use. I find that ugly since it looks like the test is the
wrong way around but whatever...
> parse_cluster() return value issue I flagged up must be fixed though.
Already done along with the other stylistic stuff.
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* [PATCH 3/3] arm64: topology: Provide relative power numbers for cores
2014-03-19 18:02 Mark Brown
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From: Mark Brown @ 2014-03-19 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
From: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Provide performance numbers to the scheduler to help it fill the cores in
the system on big.LITTLE systems. With the current scheduler this may
perform poorly for applications that try to do OpenMP style work over all
cores but should help for more common workloads. The current 32 bit ARM
implementation provides a similar estimate so this helps ensure that
work to improve big.LITTLE systems on ARMv7 systems performs similarly
on ARMv8 systems.
The power numbers are the same as for ARMv7 since it seems that the
expected differential between the big and little cores is very similar on
both ARMv7 and ARMv8. In both ARMv7 and ARMv8 cases the numbers were
based on the published DMIPS numbers.
These numbers are just an initial and basic approximation for use with
the current scheduler, it is likely that both experience with silicon
and ongoing work on improving the scheduler will lead to further tuning
or will tune automatically at runtime and so make the specific choice of
numbers here less critical.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index 6713c7de4be3..01ab52be2764 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ struct cpu_efficiency {
* use the default SCHED_POWER_SCALE value for cpu_scale.
*/
static const struct cpu_efficiency table_efficiency[] = {
+ { "arm,cortex-a57", 3891 },
+ { "arm,cortex-a53", 2048 },
{ NULL, },
};
--
1.9.0
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